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With a better than expected June jobs report that added 222-thousand jobs, wage growth remained stagnant – an area that Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta believes will begin to rise as more part-time jobs are converted into full-time jobs.

Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) of the Ways and Means Committee said Wednesday Republicans are “still on track” to deliver major tax reform this year, despite Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) announcement Tuesday to delay the vote on the Senate’s health care bill until after the July 4th recess.

United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson said Tuesday initiatives under HUD, such as increasing millennial home ownership, will continue to move forward regardless of whether Senate Republicans can come together to pass their version of a health care bill.

As voters head to the polls to cast their ballot in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District special election Tuesday, Georgia GOP Party Chairman John Watson said with confidence, “Karen’s going to win tonight.”

Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Danny Coulson on Thursday said the FBI doesn’t have the resources to monitor everything on social media, referring to James Hodgkinson’s Facebook post, in which the gunman behind the shooting at a Congressional baseball practice said: “Trump has destroyed our democracy. It’s time to destroy Trump and Co.”

Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, said he hopes the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others at a congressional baseball practice Wednesday morning will bring an end to the “vicious rhetoric that’s been going on between both parties.”

James Mitchell, author of ‘Enhanced Interrogation,’ says the terrorist considered the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack believed extremists would use America’s religious freedoms and political correctness to their advantage.

James Mitchell, author of ‘Enhanced Interrogation,’ says the terrorist considered the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack believed extremists would use America’s religious freedoms and political correctness to their advantage.

Oscar-award winning actor Robert De Niro took the stage on Sunday during a commencement ceremony at Brown University, where he told students they’re “graduating into a tragic…comedy,” and that the “country’s gone crazy.”

Oscar-award winning actor Robert De Niro took the stage on Sunday during a commencement ceremony at Brown University, where he told students they’re “graduating into a tragic…comedy,” and that the “country’s gone crazy.”